The Moonlight Series – Cristina Scabbia

After the massive (and quite unexpected) success of my moonlight-Alissa-ballpoint drawing I felt encouraged enough to give it a second try and draw another metal lady in a similar style. I started a voting on Instagram, asking my followers whether I should draw Charlotte Wessels of Delain or Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil. As the majority voted for Cristina…I drew Cristina (sorry Charlotte, I’ll draw you another time, I promise).

Searching for a reference picture turned out more difficult than I had expected – not because of a lack of suitable references but because there were too many. Eventually, I managed to decide and ended up choosing one of the “simpler” photos. The general layout of the drawing would be identical with the layout that I came up with for Alissa’s portrait so I basically just had to “copy” everything. Apart from the fact that I gave the moon another colour and of course drew Cristina instead of Alissa. I decided to make the moon red this time because the colour seemed most appropriate to me, matching Cristina’s red scar (and also because Lacuna Coil like to use red in their imagery in general). Drawing Cristina herself wasn’t that much of an effort as her outfit is relatively simple and didn’t require too much attention to tiny details.

Paper size: A4

Materials: ballpoint pen, Prismacolor pencils

Time: approx. 5 hours